Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 52

Lee Morley Bobby Morgan Ken Love KRYT Goes Disco The disco sound has arrived. Colorado Springs is now the home of a disco-rock radio station-KRYT AM U530). Accoiximg to Bobby program director. playing the music that Colorado is dancing to. an alternative to other radio in Colorado Springs.

you go to a disco, you hear the same music you hear on regular stations. If you go to discos, you want to dance to disco music. People want to listen to ami dance to the music they know and Morgan is aware of the disco scene because he works at two top Denver discos. Miss Rosie Bottoms and Nantucket Landing. He has worked on Denver radio stations and has programmed various contemporary stations in the East.

is dtefinitely playing more music than any other station in Colorado Springs. now that we re live become a community oriented station with both music and Morgan continued. are also personality oriented anyone can give the time and temperature and toss on another record Why was the disco sound picked? think it's a void in the said general manager Bob Adams. is today's music and people can't find it anywhere else. Where I'm really fortunate is having men with actual working expertise in Besides Morgan.

Mike Bind- soiig 10 a p.m.) actually handles music in discos. Birdsong works at Homer's Odyssey and Weston Electric. Among the music makers that can be heard on the station now are the BeeGees. Saver. C.

and the Sunshine Band. Rod Stewart. Natalie Cole. Lou Rawls. Rolls Royce and others; the contemporary music that is a blend of disco With rock, said Morgan.

What the station will be playing. though, "doesn't conform to Billboard. If it's a hit in Los Angeles, play it here we don't conform to that. We're playing music for Colorado Springs." For approximately four years KRYT was automated and simulcast with KRYT FM (now KINX F.Mt. playing adult coo- music.

With their new oriented" image. KRYT has expanded news coverage but, according to will kee it concise and to the point. We will cover as many stories as we can in minutes and get back to music. Eighty per cent of the people want hear music instead of extended Broadcast on the half hour will be national and international news and local news is at 55 minutes past the hour. Lee Mozley, who has had 20 vears experience with Armed Forces Radio and rnmmpmiai will handle the morning news and Dennis Brown.

with radio and new experience, will be responsible for evening news. Said Adams. are sse With the Mayor's Report at 8 a m. each weekday morning Larry- Ochs discusses existing community problems progress and possible solutions. Tish Sachs is the court house and city hall reporter.

Community projects includle a Community Club Awards program With ciubs and church organizations competing for monetary awards, sponsorship of the S.x)rts. Boat and Recreational Vehicle Show May 7-8 at Denver Warehouse Sales, and a School's Out Party in May at the North Pole. alive, vibrant and we re excited because today's said Adams. The new KRYT format is as follows: Bobby Morgan. S-IO a.m.; Mike Birdsong.

10 a.m.-2 and Ken Love, 2-6 p.m. Jim Walker is from 2-6 pm. Saturdays and Jim Lennon is from noon-5 30 p.m. Sundays. Iw)ve has been with Armed Forces and commercial radio.

Walker is a radio professional foTnerly with stations in Houston and Denver. Lennon is a former weekend air personality with Denver And. according to Morgan, they a-e all now part of Letters That Mean Music for Colorado Springs MEN'S FINALS Sensational pass catcher Lynn Swann of the Pittsburgh Steelers clears a preliminary hurdle en route to the Final of ABC Sports' "The Superstars, airing hve Sunday on ABC Last year, Swann was runr.er-up to Kyle Rote, Jr. tn the championship round Citizens' Goals for Colorado Springs and the roncept of neighborhcA-d meetings will be explained at 6 p.m. today on This is the in a series and those interviewed by Jackie Jaramillo will be Mary Ellen Ms.Xally, John Endicotl and Wend all Phillips.

Neighborhood meetings, similar to the old town hall meetings, will be held throughout the Pikes Peak Region and those participating will come to a consensus rather than majority rule. Through the meetings the Goals group hopes to arrive at goals for this city which reflect the views of a majority of its citizens. The whole concept will be explored on KIIQ's Genesis of Rock was so successful that it Will become a regular feature Starting Sunday, Hal Smith will feature the best music of the 1950s and 1960s from 8 a.m. to noon This concept has been a regular feature on several Ikm- xer radio stations and should be just as popular here KIIQ AM and FM also will start a new series of music features from 6 a.m. to 6 m.

each Saturday The music of four or five different artists will be spotlighted and listeners will be given a chance to vote for their favorites. The winners from all will be used in a final contest to determine the Pikes Peak favorite artist Today's music will include that of John Denver, Mac Davis. Gordon lightfoot and Glen Campbell. by Linda Navarro the year on "ABC's Monday Xight Ba.se- bai!" and who has a major league ba.scball bmadca.sler since 1971. has a lyng.

term agreement to ji.m AiiC Sports as a full time commentator. He will work the play-by-play announcer on Monday night baseball and will cover events for "Wide World of Sports," Michaels has the garnes for the San Francisco (liants and the Cincinnati Reds. and the resumed production la.st Monday and Freddie who died recently, will not he repbued. Two shows later this season will deal with Chico's leaxing the garage. KRCC (91.5 FM) kicks off a four-part series on Shakespeare from 9-11 p.m.

Thursday and will call the event on a Theme by William plays have inspired great music ranging from operas and ballets to songs and overtures. This music is all based on the plays. Host Norv Brasch xvill explore this music during the four Thursdays sta ting with this presentation, in the Days of Elizabeth The Colorado College Semi-Pro Musica will give its radio debut. KRCC New York Philharmonic broaci''ast on Tuesday will feature Pierre Boulez conducting and Pierre Fournier on cello. Walku will be the 12th ope-a to be broadcast during the 1976-77 season over the Texaco-Metropolitan opera Radio Network, todav on 0 On Mills Radio over KVOR this weekend are Boy WTio Would Be a based on a Rudyard Kipling story (today) and adaotations of H.

Solomon's (Sunday). AJ Michaels, the young, veteran was one of The Ken Norton-Duane Bobiek heavyweight match has been postponed until 11 Bobick suffe-ed a rib injury in training. The fight will be broadcast live from new K's Madi.son juaie Garden. The pomp and pageantry surrounding the yea'-long celebration of the Silver Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth I I reign will be the focal point of the show when it originates week-long live and tajied coverage of events from Undon on June 6-10. Tom okaw and Jane Pauley will as rom- mentators from Uindoii Among the events to be overev! live will be the Thanksgiving Service from St.

Paul's Cathedral and the Queen's stop at St. Catherine's Pier during her journey on the Thames River. Children's Television Workshop has acquired the telev i.sion rights to the acclaimed book that chronicles the stnrggle for school desegregation that culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools. The book by Richard Kluger will be translated into a dramatic TV series for prime time broadcast on PBS. NBC TV head Ibibe-t T.

Howard has pledged that the NBC Television Network 11 reduce the number of hard-action programs on it.s 1977 78 schedule. viewing television as a whole," said Howard, 'believes that the proliferation of pro- a types whose plot lines he-vily involve violence become excessive. It is taking positive and practical steps to reduce the number of Said Hovva d. empha.sis on non-violent programs in and a reduction in hard action police shows is a of cons' ious television and cvrpo- rate management poli He noted that half the pilot shows from which new schedule will be selected are in the comedy and variety.